• Thursday, April 25, 2024

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Tribute to Tessa

By: Eastern Eye Staff

by Amit Roy FORMER MINISTER’S LEGACY GIVES HOPE TO OTHERS WITH CANCER POLITICIANS have paid tribute to Dame Tes­sa Jowell, their friend and colleague who died last Saturday (12) aged 70, but I happen to know through personal sources that she was a genuinely nice person. We are often critical of aspects of life in this country, but it is people like Tessa who make Britain the kind of special country that it is. From diagnosis to death, her descent was swift, yet she made a memorable final appear­ance in the Lords on January 25 this year when she expressed concern…

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